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244Moral realism and program explanationAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 84 (3). 2006.Alexander Miller has recently considered an ingenious extension of Frank Jackson and Philip Pettit's account of 'program explanation' as a way of defending non-reductive naturalist versions of moral realism against Harman's explanatory criticism. Despite the ingenuity of this extension, Miller concludes that program explanation cannot help such moral realists in their attempt to defend moral properties. Specifically, he argues that such moral program explanations are dispensable from an epistemi…Read more
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19Eliminative Materialism and Substantive CommitmentsInternational Philosophical Quarterly 31 (1): 39-49. 1991.This paper is critical examination of eliminativism in the philosophy of mind. I begin by identifying eliminativism over and against two other positions in the mind/brain debate. I examine a 'postulational' version of the argument and Richard Rorty's version, arguing that the former is best interpreted as an attempt to eliminate singular terms whereas the latter is best interpreted as an attempt to eliminate predicates. I then set the eliminativism debate in the context of the metaphilosphica…Read more
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548We Have No Positive Epistemic DutiesMind 119 (473): 83-102. 2010.In ethics, it is commonly supposed that we have both positive duties and negative duties, things we ought to do and things we ought not to do. Given the many parallels between ethics and epistemology, we might suppose that the same is true in epistemology, and that we have both positive epistemic duties and negative epistemic duties. I argue that this is false; that is, that we have negative epistemic duties, but no positive ones. There are things that we ought not to believe, but there is nothi…Read more
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48Christian theism and moral philosophy (edited book)Mercer University Press. 1998.These essays exhibit explanation and argument regarding some of the possible answers to these fundamental questions in moral philosophy.
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Areas of Specialization
| Epistemology |
| Philosophy of Religion |
| Meta-Ethics |
| Normative Ethics |